Lead Software Engineer - SaaS Platform (TypeScript/React)

Openr; Greater London; Hybrid; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to shape the technical direction

Collaborative engineering culture

Work with modern cloud-native technologies

Job summary

A leading hospitality tech company is seeking a Team Lead Engineer to join their growing team in Central London. You will lead and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with development across a full-stack environment that includes React and TypeScript. This role involves driving technical excellence, making architectural decisions, and balancing feature delivery with system reliability. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of software experience with strong communication skills and experience with AWS and serverless architectures. The position offers a collaborative culture and modern cloud-native technologies.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on coding abilities in TypeScript and React.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence and best practices across the team.
• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers.
• Balance technical debt with feature delivery.

Skills

Software development experience

Team leadership

Hands-on coding in TypeScript

Hands-on coding in React

Experience with AWS

Excellent communication skills

System design skills

Tools

Serverless Framework

Terraform

AWS cloud infrastructure

Job description

A leading hospitality tech company is seeking a Team Lead Engineer to join their growing team in Central London. You will lead and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with development across a full-stack environment that includes React and TypeScript. This role involves driving technical excellence, making architectural decisions, and balancing feature delivery with system reliability. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of software experience with strong communication skills and experience with AWS and serverless architectures. The position offers a collaborative culture and modern cloud-native technologies.